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Laos began inviting foreign athletes of exceptional ability with documented Lao heritage to represent Laos in international competition in 2020 with boxer Walter Sarnoi Oupathana being the first American to do so. [53] Several Lao-America athletes represented Laos at the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia including swimmers Angelina Messina, Ariana ...
The Lao Veterans of America, Inc., describes itself as a non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental, veterans organization that represents Lao- and Hmong-American veterans who served in the U.S. clandestine war in the Kingdom of Laos during the Vietnam War as well as their refugee families in the United States.
The Lao Veterans of America Institute plays a significant role in the Hmong-American community in providing education, training and services to Hmong refugees from Laos fleeing political persecution, citizenship and naturalization services to veterans and their families, and veterans' recognition and memorial services including at the Laos Memorial in Washington, D.C. and Arlington National ...
Lao-American College Football Club is a Laotian football club competing in the Lao League, the highest level of Laotian football. [1] Honours. Lao Premier League.
The scale of the operations was concealed from the American public until 1970, as Laos was technically neutral in the Vietnam conflict. But Vietnamese communist forces and the CIA were waging a ...
Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos, 1954–1961. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. Yang, Kou. "Research note: The Hmong in America: Twenty-five years after the US secret war in Laos." Journal of Asian American Studies 4.2 (2001): 165-174. online
Wangyee Vang played a major role in Washington, D.C., and with the Lao- and Hmong-American community, along with his brother Cherzong Vang, in the research, development, advocacy, passage and implementation of the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000.
Accounting for American personnel missing in Laos and clearing unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the wars in Indochina were the initial focuses of the post-1975 bilateral relationship. Since that time the relationship has broadened to include cooperation on a range of issues including counter-narcotics, health, child nutrition, environmental ...